172 XXXI. LEGUMINOS^E. [Xylia. 



globose, tomentose, long-pedunculate flower-heads, 1 in. diam. Petals 

 linear, valvate, slightly cohering at the base. Stamens 10, free ; anthers 

 basifixed, with deciduous stipitate glands. Pod thick, woody, flat, falcate, 

 4-6 in. long, 2-2 J in. broad at the broadest part. Seeds 8-10, oval, com- 

 pressed, shining, J in. long. 



Burma, South India, extending to the Godavery forests on the east side, and 

 (as far as known at present) to the Colaba district on the west side. (In- 

 cluded in Forsyth's List of Central Prov. timber-trees.) Leafless during part of 

 the dry season. Fl. March- April ; fr. autumn. Bark grey. Trunk tall, of 

 great girth. Heartwood dark red, very hard ; weight between 58 and 70 lb. 

 Aver, of P. 800. 



7. LEUOSINA, Benth. 



1. L. glauca, Benth. in Hook. Journ. Bot. iv. (1842) 416. Syn. Acacia 

 frondosa, Willd. ; W. & A. Prodr. 275. 



A shrub or small tree, unarmed, with large bipinnate leaves, linear 

 leaflets, white flowers in globose, axillary heads, forming short terminal 

 leafy panicles. Petals 5, free, linear, valvate. Stamens 10, anthers versa- 

 tile, without glands. Pods clustered in umbels of 3-6, linear, stipitate, 

 thin, flat, shining, 4-6 in. long, 2-valved, with numerous prominent seeds. 



Indigenous or naturalised in most tropical countries, commonly cultivated 

 in gardens in India ; n<*t uncommon in the outer valleys of Garhwal and Ka- 

 maon. Fl. June- Aug. ; fr. autumn. 



8. MIMOSA, Linn. 



Herbs, shrubs, or trees, with bipinnate, often sensitive leaves, generally 

 without petiolar glands, but with stipels at the base of pinnae. Flowers in 

 globose heads or cylindrical spikes, tetramerous or pentamerous, rarely tri- 

 or hexamerous. Calyx minute, pappiform, rarely campanulate. Petals 

 more or less connate, valvate. Stamens definite, generally twice the 

 number of petals, and more than twice their length. Anthers small, 

 without glands. Ovary with 2 or many ovules, style filiform, with a 

 small terminal stigma. Pod oblong or linear, the valves membranous or 

 coriaceous, separating entire or in transverse joints from the persistent 

 sutural frame. 



1. M. rubicaulis, Lam. ; Hooker Ic. Plant, ii. t. 156 ; W. & A. Prodr. 

 268. Syn. M. octandra, Eoxb. Cor. PI. t. 200 ; M. mutabilis, Roxb. Fl. 

 Ind. ii. 564. Vern. Bdl, khair, didriar, Pb. ; Agla, Kamaon ; Kingli, 

 klngrei, Rohilkhand ; Kaclieyta, Gorakhpur ; Hajeru, Sindh. 



A large, straggling, prickly shrub, 10 ft. high. Pubescent; branches, 

 petioles, and peduncles armed with short, curved, sharp prickles. Pinnaa 

 3-10 pair; leaflets 6-15 pair, unequal - sided, linear - oblong, obtuse. 

 Flower-heads on peduncles 1-1 \ in. long, solitary or fasciculate, forming 

 racemes near the ends of branches. Flowers tetramerous ; calyx short- 

 campanulate, 3 or 4 times shorter than the funnel-shaped corolla. 

 Stamens 8. Pods stipitate, glabrous, armed or unarmed, 3-5 in. long, J 

 in. broad, curved, separating from the sutural frame in square joints 





